New Articles – Business Administration and Management

Soft total quality management and employee performance: The resonant effect of leader narcissism

Ha Thu Nguyen, Anh Thi Tu Le, Anh Chi Phan

Stemming from the purpose of exploring the changes made by narcissism in the context of hospitality enterprises with total quality management (TQM) implementation, this study proposes a multi-level analytical framework taking into account the moderating effect of leader narcissism on the relationship between soft TQM practices and employee performance on the basis of the abilities, motivations, opportunities framework and the social information processing theory. The analysis of survey data…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2025-5-005 more

Energy companies’ readiness for the digital transformation of the purchasing process

Agata Kulikowska, Ewa Wszendybyl-Skulska

Social and economic developments, the dynamic geopolitical situation, and climate policy changes are exerting an increasingly significant influence on stakeholders in the energy sector. In recent years, the sector has undergone a period of dynamic change, during which there has been a notable increase in awareness of the potential for digital transformation within the sector. A specific process that ensures the security and stability of supply is the purchasing process. The objective of this…

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How does top management’s environmental awareness influence green innovation: The moderating role of absorptive capacity and slack resources

Ying Yang, Jiaxin Zhao, Xiu-e Zhang

Based on the upper echelons theory, dynamic capability theory, and resource-based view, this study explores the impact of top management’s environmental awareness (TMEA) on green innovation (GI), the moderating role of absorptive capacity (AC) and slack resources (SR). Using the data of A-shared listed manufacturing firms in China from 2010–2023, this study finds that TMEA has a significant positive effect on GI. Furthermore, AC and unabsorbed slack resources (USR) strengthen the effect of TMEA…

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The lens of business model element activation

Pavel Adamek

A business model is the foundation for understanding the functioning of a business entity and is a source of innovation and change. Therefore, developing a business model is necessary, and proactive activation can be a source of competitive advantage to meet the appropriate requirements in the composition of business model elements. The study aims to identify the key elements of activation in business models and to discover their significance. This study uses an expertbased approach based on…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2025-5-001 more

Towards sporadic demand stock management based on simulation with single reorder point estimation

Katerina Huskova, Petra Kasparova, Jakub Dyntar

The goal of this paper is to decide whether bootstrapping and/or linear regression are suitable to estimate an initial reorder point in sporadic demand stock management based on past stock movement simulation (PSMS) in combination with neighborhood search-oriented optimization. Thus, we randomly generate demand data including 20–80% zero demand periods and simulate continuous review, fixed order quantity inventory control policy (R, Q) for 4 different arrangements of PSMS combined with local…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2025-5-002 more